Shoe form



1932- w J. DE WlTT 1,889,887

SHOE FORM Filed Sept. 21, 1951 Patented Dec. 6 1932 UNITED STATES P ArENr- WILLIAM J. DE WITT, OF AUBURN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO SHOE FORIVE 00., INQ, AUBURN, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK SHOE This invention relates to an improvement in a shoe form more particularly in a form of the full form type by which support is provided for the toe heel and side walls of a shoe such, for example, as is disclosed in my Patent No. 1,632,954.

As set forth in that patent the form is preferably made of celluloid or other normally resilient, flexible material which, under certain conditions, is moldable and, when restored to its normal state, retains the conformation resulting from such molding opera tion.

While the full form disclosed in my prior patent has proven to be of great value and many thousand such forms are in use, it has been criticized on the ground thatthe unsupported heel and intermediate side wall portions permit a certain distortion of the form as the result of handling and it is the object of the present invention to increase the rigidity of such portions of the form by partially closing the form at the bottom thus securing the side walls against movement at the lower edges relative to each other.

Other objects will appear from a'consideration of the following description of one em bodiment of this invention and of the drawing which illustrates such embodiment and in which Fig. 1 is a side view partially in section of a shoe form embodying this invention;

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view thereof; and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view thereof taken transversely of the intermediate portion of the form.

The full form, designated generally by the reference numeral 10 comprises a toe portion 11, an intermediate portion 12 and a heel portion 13. The form is made froma sheet of material which may be molded upon a last as shown in my Patent No. 1,585,28 dated May 18, 1926, the ends of the side walls 15 of the form being overlapped at theheel and suitably secured together as by the use of an adhesive, for example, acetone. The lower edges of the side walls terminate in integral flanges which, for the purpose of ease in description are designated at the toe portion as 16 and 17 and at the intermediate and heel. portions as 18 and 19. The flanges 16 and 17 are here'shown to be connected by an adjustable cross brace which may be of any bar on its pivot the side walls at the toe portion may be expanded or contracted in order to insure the desired contact of the form with the toe of the shoe in which it is inserted. Secured to theflanges 18 and 19 is a plate 25 preferably but not necessarily of celluloid, and affixed by the use of acetone or any suitable adhesive. The plate 25 is cut to conform substantially to the inner dimensions of the form and thus closes the bottom of the form at the intermediate and heel portions. The side walls of the format such portions are thus connected by the plate 25 and the flanges thereof held against any independent movement relative to each other.

.While' one embodiment of the invention has been shown and described I am not lim-' ited thereto since other embodiments might be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the following claims.

I claim:

1. A hollow shoe form comprising toe, intermediate and heel portions, theside walls terminating at the sole of the form in flanges, adjustable means for connecting the side wall flanges at the toe portion, and fixed means for connecting the side wall flanges at the intermediate and heel portions.

2. A hollow shoe form comprising toe, intermediate and heel portions, the side walls terminating at the sole of the form in flanges, adjustable means for connecting the side wall flanges at the toe portion, and a plate attached to the side wall flanges at the intermediate and heel portions to connect said Walls. 7

3. A hollow shoe form comprising toe, intermediate and heel portions, the side walls terminating at the sole of the form in flanges, adjustable means for connecting the side wall flanges at the toe portion, and a plate attached to the side Wall flanges at the intermediate and heel portions to connect said Walls, and close the bottom of the form at such portions.

4. A hollow shoe form comprising toe, intermediate and heel portions, the side Walls terminating at the sole of the form in'fianges, and means for connecting said side Walls comprising fixed means attached to said flanges and adjustable means independent oi.

said fixed means.

5. A hollow shoe form comprising toe, termediate and heel portions, the side Walls terminating at the soleof the form in flanges, and means for connecting said side Walls comprising a plate fixed to said flanges and a bar adjnstably secured to said flanges.

Signed by me at Auburn, N. Y., this 15th day of September, 1931. 1

WILLIAM J.- DE WITT. l 

